Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-28

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Listen "a me. OF counse your daugh-
ter marries the man you choose. You
kuoW that as Well as I. / ask you for
your daughters hand and you promise
me Yes; then you make excuses.
What you call back OUT But l do
not choose YOU u tack out. / intend
To marry your daughter. Look here.
Granger Thompson" he continued In
lower tone, show long have you
known meI'
IL should say bout ten years. re-
spOnded the other.
And during these ten years have
you ever known me- to turn from my
purpose?"
"N-n-no, 1 don't think I have"
''Or fail to succeed in anything L set
my heart onPr
''N-no; dare say not"
We'll, L mean to marry your daugh-
ter"
But she won't have you"
"Pooh! II you had not played me
false, my good fellow, the match would
have been arranged by this time"
Played you false, MI. Brandt l.
l."
Now you listen to me. I've made
mp my mind TO marry your daughter
Kate, and l mean To do il. If 1t costs
me half my fortune l will do 1t. II L
have to ruin you in the process 1 will
do it. If"
''Get out of thisvr screamed little
| Thompson, fairly bes de himself with
ge. "You stand at my own freside
and threaten me. by Jove, I'll send
| for policeman" He opened the door
/ and shouted "Tomp' And the eldest
/ hope OF the Thompsons descended the
/ stairs three steps at a time In a
| twlnkliug the street door was open and
| Herr Brandt was unceTemOnlously bun.
/ died into the street.
When this feat had been accomplished
| Mr.. Thompson felt half afraid of what
| he had done. Tor the German banker
was an influential man and might be
| able to injure him. 1t was too late
| now, however, for regrets He drank
I a glass OF brandy by way of steadying
/ his nerves, and magnanimously re-
| Trained from telling his daughter that
/ It WAS all owing To her unreasonable
I ObstiDacy that he had got into the
. scrape-
| As for the German, he went home
vowing vengeance against the whole
family and race or ThOmpsOns. He
was more bent upon marrying Kate
than ever, for his resentment stimulated
rather than moderated his passion.
And he had determined to be revenged
on her father.
At length he resolved upon plan of
action, and he lost no time in putting
il into practice. The first experience
poor Thompson had OF MS enemy's
resentment WAS finding that his ban
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him, would not discount some bills he
offered them without additional secu-
rity. He left the bank parlOr IN d
huff, and after vainly trying to place
the bills elsewhere, was forced u 20 u
Jew for the money. From that day
misfOrtunes came thick upon hIn
Good customers seemed to tight shy OF
him; shady people whom he hated to
have seen about his office came there
patrOniZed him AMI put him in the WAY
of contracting bad debts. People witt
whom he had dealt for twenty year;
suddenly seemed TO be suspicious o
him; everybody to whom he owed
twenty pounds was anxious to get hi:
money. In a word, Granger TnOmp
sons credit was shaken 50 seriOusl!
that a little more would destroy i
altogether.
Sometimes the unhappy man wa
inclined To attribute these uutOwarC
events to the quarrel he had had will
Mr.. Brandt and the reyengeful feellng
he had excited in the Germans breast
at other times he thought that 1t Wa
Impossible that one adverse influences
could be exercised in so many dIHeren
directions. He did not take into &C
count the readiness with which an un-
favorable rumor, coming from an ap
parentIy unbiased source, spreads an
repeats itself, nor the amount or evi
which persevering malIgnlty can &C
complIsh.
At length one day the crash came. !
hrm who owed Thompson consider
able sum failed just before the day 10
paying him. Tue poor man had bill
to meet next week, and he had beeI
? relying on this very sum to enable hin
to take them up. He applied to hi
bankers TO help Eim-in vain; he trie
one old friend after another-lt wa
, quite useless. Poor ThompsOn's bill
were dishonored, and in a month h
? was adjudicated bankrupt.
) The comfortable establishment q
5 Blackheath was broken up; all I'll
2 household goods-the girls piano, th
: old mans easy chair, the pictures, Il
very spoons and forks were seized an
T sold. There were no friends at han
| TO buy in some of the furniture to mai
z u fresh start. They went and hi
= themselves in lodgings in mean stret
c in the regions of Upper Holloway.
To complete the distress OF the ian
l Ily, Tom. who was the only one OF the
y who was earning anything substantial
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some work as a daily governeSS, br
l her sIlary went little way In keepli
the wolf from the door
4 As the old man, now looking see
= and threadbare, WAS returning HON
e ward along Cheapside one bitter y
n yember day after an unsuccessful
Q tempt to obtain employment as eoo
a keeper he met Mr. Brandt face 10 fac
a An angry gieam came into the ban
Y rupt's ewes, for he could not help eute
Il tanning a feeling that the German h.
had a hand in his mlsfortuneS-ce
q tainly they had begun shortly after !
e time when he had expelled the bank
r from his house. But Brandt came
" to him. fat, hOurlshing and smllln
and held out his hand
A. MIR. Thompson-my old frie end
is Was so sorry 10 hear OF your mls''
ID tunes" He took the broken-doN
er merchants uuresistiGg hand a
Al pressed II as he spoke. II would ha
Se sought YOU out and offered my SYM
le thy sooner, but 1 feared you might thI
of il an Intrusion, as we were not on We
"a COOL terms when we parted-eh? u
n let bygones be bygones. as your d
English proverb says Here IS +
=" taurant. Have you had lunchp VIII
lis DO you say to have u chop and gla
T. OF sherry together, for old times sake
ne The poor old man was hungry and
All consented.
a SNow tel me what 1 can do
l you," said the German, when Ihon
at son had finished the most comforta
IS meal he had had for many day. II
me how YOU are all getting on"
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